Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2022-11-12 01:57 (UTC-0500): > # grep MODULES= /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > MODULES=dep > # ls -Ggh /boot/initrd.img-[5,6]* > -rw-r--r-- 1 6.8M May 8 2022 /boot/initrd.img-5.17.0-1-686 > -rw-r--r-- 1 31M Aug 2 03:06 /boot/initrd.img-5.18.0-3-686 > -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: It might be a good way for someone to reproduce the error on some other machine. I have no problems with the CD/DVD writer and have used it a few times recently. Do you see the same errors if kernel command line is edited from grub to pass non-existing UUI

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 06:45:14PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > It's useful, as seen in my post, to skip past the early archive in > order to see how the main archive has been compressed. If you want to see the contents of the *second* archive in the initrd, you have to call cpio a second time.

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Feb 2023 at 07:49:39 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 01:45:33AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2023-02-01 22:39 (UTC-0600): > > > $ cpio -t < /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64 > > > > Is that a typo? I copied & pasted that and the screen loa

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

2023-02-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Feb 2023 at 23:59:38 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-01-26 13:09:31 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I don't know a lot about zsh, but I ran it, typed some letters, and > > pressed Ctrl-U, and they were all erased as expected. > > But the point is multiline, as you did then: >

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

2023-02-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-01-26 13:09:31 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 06:34:24PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > About this, Ctrl-U is just a shell feature. Contrary to bash, it is > > not really usable in zsh to erase long pastes (unless one changes > > the default bindings). But Ctrl-C i

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread John Covici
sorry, replied to wrong list. On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:55:18 -0500, John Covici wrote: > > For instance I just got a post from Freedom Scientific which had the > announcement in the Email and also link to the post. > On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:28:55 -0500, > David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri 03 Feb 2

Re: Correction: Re: Resolved: (was: Re: OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question))

2023-02-03 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, February 03, 2023 04:56:38 PM debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > In my original post, I blamed those pop up texts (warning about an > > external link) on noscript -- they are actually coming from kmail > > itself. (I use an older version so it may not be a problem in more > > up-to-d

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread John Covici
For instance I just got a post from Freedom Scientific which had the announcement in the Email and also link to the post. On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:28:55 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 03 Feb 2023 at 13:12:05 (+), Richmond wrote: > > David Wright writes: > > > On Thu 02 Feb 2023 at 21:58:

Re: Correction: Re: Resolved: (was: Re: OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question))

2023-02-03 Thread debian-user
> In my original post, I blamed those pop up texts (warning about an > external link) on noscript -- they are actually coming from kmail > itself. (I use an older version so it may not be a problem in more > up-to-date versions of kmail.) I'm glad you wrote that explanation. I just drove myself n

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Feb 2023 at 13:12:05 (+), Richmond wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Thu 02 Feb 2023 at 21:58:54 (+), Richmond wrote: > >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: > >> > > >> > (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block directory of the initrd > >> > ?) > >> > >> I don't know how I w

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> No local block. :-? > > Maybe you can find our from where the message comes: > > grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21 > > grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21 /tmp/initrd21/scripts/local:[ "${quiet?}"

Correction: Re: Resolved: (was: Re: OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question))

2023-02-03 Thread rhkramer
In my original post, I blamed those pop up texts (warning about an external link) on noscript -- they are actually coming from kmail itself. (I use an older version so it may not be a problem in more up-to-date versions of kmail.) On Friday, February 03, 2023 12:55:02 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wro

Resolved: (was: Re: OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question))

2023-02-03 Thread rhkramer
(Intentionally top posting.) Thanks to all who replied! Yes, xev shows that does auto repeat (outside of the Firefox browser). I guess I need to look for a dumb web browser ;-) On Friday, February 03, 2023 09:12:18 AM Nicolas George wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com (12023-02-03): > > Is there a wa

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > No local block. :-? Maybe you can find our from where the message comes: grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21 Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Completely locking out a user

2023-02-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-02-03 at 11:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 04:27:06PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >> - crontabs or atjobs that download instructions from the web; >> >> - .procmailrc or “|something” in .forward; >> >> - probably one or two mechanisms I forgot about. > Any proces

Re: Completely locking out a user

2023-02-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 04:27:06PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > - crontabs or atjobs that download instructions from the web; > > - .procmailrc or “|something” in .forward; > > - probably one or two mechanisms I forgot about. systemd --user units and timers. Any process currently running unde

Completely locking out a user

2023-02-03 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. When there is a suspicious access to a user account, we want to lock this account until we made sure. So “:-:” in /etc/shadow and shell to /bin/false, and “sudo -u user kill -9 -1”. But, at least with the default configuration, these will not block: - crontabs or atjobs that download instruc

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-02-03 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Pierre Willaime posted > > > For example I am looking for a convenient way to > "draw" some ASCII boxes such as > > # > ## some title here ## > # I have a python program that does this $ python3 msgbox.py Skunk Bucket from Nan Tuck

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-02-03 at 09:57, Felix Miata wrote: > The Wanderer composed on 2023-02-03 07:16 (UTC-0500): > >> FTLIW, my own primary desktop has an AMD graphics card (and has since >> before the initial Debian install), and doesn't have these large >> initrds: > > Oh, but it does > >> $ lh /boot/

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread Felix Miata
The Wanderer composed on 2023-02-03 07:16 (UTC-0500): > FTLIW, my own primary desktop has an AMD graphics card (and has since > before the initial Debian install), and doesn't have these large > initrds: Oh, but it does > $ lh /boot/initrd.img-* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36M Sep 2 08:27 /bo

Re: OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question)

2023-02-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 03:12:18PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: [...] > Your problem is probably that the web browser tries to be smart. There > is usually no solution to programs trying to be smart, alas. How true :-/ I'd one-up that and add: "there is no solution to web browsers". Cheers --

Re: OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question)

2023-02-03 Thread Nicolas George
rhkra...@gmail.com (12023-02-03): > Is there a way to setup auto repeat for the key? Or maybe I could > assign to some other key that already has auto repeat? Yes, you have to type the following command: "". Escape has already auto-repeat enabled by default. You can check it with xev, or even

OT: Auto repeat on key (not a Debian specific question)

2023-02-03 Thread rhkramer
Is there a way to setup auto repeat for the key? Or maybe I could assign to some other key that already has auto repeat? Background / motivation: I get emails that have a lot of external references, and NoScript pops up a warning text box for each one which I must close (kmail is frozen unti

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > > > $ cpio -t < /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64 Felix Miata wrote: > > Is that a typo? I copied & pasted that and the screen loaded binary > > gibberish. Greg Wooledge wrote: > GNU cpio(1) says that -t implies -i, so it should work on Debian. Probably the initrd is co

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Thu 02 Feb 2023 at 21:58:54 (+), Richmond wrote: >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: >> > >> > (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block directory of the initrd ?) >> >> I don't know how I would look in that. Is it in RAM at boot time? > >Choose your kernel ↓

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
Michel Verdier writes: > Le 2 février 2023 Richmond a écrit : > >> There is no such file. Earlier I ran this: >> >> find / -print|grep "scripts/local-block" >> >> and it found nothing, which led me to believe it is some temporary file... >>> >>> (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block dir

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 01:45:33AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2023-02-01 22:39 (UTC-0600): > > $ cpio -t < /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64 > > Is that a typo? I copied & pasted that and the screen loaded binary gibberish. GNU cpio(1) says that -t implies -i, so it shoul

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-02-03 at 01:45, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2023-02-01 22:39 (UTC-0600): >> FTR, I reinstalled 5.10.0-21-amd64 on another machine with MODULES=dep >> and for comparison (initrd only): > >> $ unmkinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-21-amd64 /tmp/unpacked10-21 >> cpio: et

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-03 Thread debian-user
> I've tried they sent me back here :/ > > Le 02/02/2023 à 17:06, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk a écrit : > >> On 01/02/2023 21:48, Freyja wrote: > >>> Instead of just creating the folders, I've reinstalled some > >>> packages: > >> I would consider complete reinstall (install from scratch). It m

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-03 Thread Freyja
I need to look deeper in your recommendations, I will try them as soon as I can. Le 02/02/2023 à 17:28, songbird a écrit : debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: ... Maybe it's worth asking on the systemd-devel mailing list? did you reinstall rsyslog? did you purge the configs for it (back th

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-03 Thread Freyja
I've tried they sent me back here :/ Le 02/02/2023 à 17:06, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk a écrit : On 01/02/2023 21:48, Freyja wrote: Instead of just creating the folders, I've reinstalled some packages: I would consider complete reinstall (install from scratch). It may be faster even for a pers

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-03 Thread Freyja
Hi, Both are installed but when I try to remove them it want to remove too many packages :/ -- ❯ dpkg -l |grep selinux ii  libselinux1:amd64 3.1-3  amd64 SELinux runtime shared libraries -- -- ❯ apt-get remove libselinux1 Reading package list